According to The New York Times, a Hasbro spokesman said this was because retailers in some markets “already had adequate inventory of the original version of the 2015 game, so they opted not to take in additional inventory of the new version”.

She added that the updated version of the game was sold in “several markets around the world but [was] not available for sale in the US due to insufficient interest”.

And this prompted a response from Bad Robot – the production company owned by Star Wars director J.J. Abrams.